Systems and methods for enhanced hot melt liquid dispensing system management are disclosed. In an example method for determining an operating instruction for a hot melt liquid dispensing system having an applicator and a heater, the operating instruction is determined based on a filtered applicator parameter value associated with gun cycle counts of the applicator and a filtered heater parameter value associated with duty cycle values of the heater. The filtered applicator parameter value is determined based on historic applicator parameter values that are updated according to a current applicator parameter value. The filtered heater parameter value is determined based on historic heater parameter values that are updated according to a current heater parameter value.
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2. The method of claim 1, wherein the current applicator parameter value and the current heater parameter value are received by a computer system located remote from the hot melt liquid dispensing system.
3. The method of claim 1, wherein the first operating parameter of the applicator is associated with a gun cycle of the applicator.
4. The method of claim 3, wherein the first operating parameter of the applicator comprises a gun cycle count of the applicator during a temporally associated time interval.
5. The method of claim 1, wherein the second operating parameter of the hot melt liquid heater is associated with a duty cycle of the hot melt liquid heater.
6. The method of claim 5, wherein the second operating parameter of the hot melt liquid heater comprises a duty cycle value of the hot melt liquid heater during a temporally associated time interval.
7. The method of claim 1, wherein the historic applicator parameter value comprises a moving average of the first operating parameter of the applicator over a plurality of historic time intervals corresponding to the first historic time interval of the historic block of time.
8. The method of claim 7, wherein determining the filtered applicator parameter value comprises updating the moving average of the first operating parameter of the applicator with the current applicator parameter value.
9. The method of claim 8, wherein the moving average of the first operating parameter of the applicator comprises an exponentially weighted moving average.
10. The method of claim 1, wherein the historic heater parameter value comprises a moving average of the second operating parameter of the hot melt liquid heater over a plurality of historic time intervals corresponding to the first historic time interval of the historic block of time.
11. The method of claim 10, wherein determining the filtered heater parameter value comprises updating the moving average of the second operating parameter of the hot melt liquid heater with the current heater parameter value.
12. The method of claim 11, wherein the moving average of the second operating parameter of the hot melt liquid heater comprises an exponentially weighted moving average.
13. The method of claim 1, wherein the third operating parameter of the hot melt liquid dispensing system is associated with a temperature of hot melt liquid.
14. The method of claim 13, wherein the operating parameter value of the third operating parameter comprises a target temperature for the hot melt liquid heater.
15. The method of claim 14, wherein the target temperature comprises at least one of a pre-determined dispensing temperature or a pre-determined setback temperature, the setback temperature being lower than the dispensing temperature.
16. The method of claim 13, wherein the instruction for operating the hot melt liquid dispensing system according to the operating parameter value of the third operating parameter comprises an instruction for the hot melt liquid heater to discontinue applying heat.
17. The method of claim 13, wherein the instruction for operating the hot melt liquid dispensing system according to the operating parameter value of the third operating parameter comprises an instruction for the hot melt liquid heater to begin to apply heat to hot melt liquid.
18. The method of claim 13, wherein the instruction for operating the hot melt liquid dispensing system according to the operating parameter value of the third operating parameter comprises an instruction for the hot melt liquid heater to enter an operating mode including at least one of an on mode, an off mode, a setback mode, or a ready mode.
19. The method of claim 1, wherein the instruction for operating the hot melt liquid dispensing system according to the operating parameter value of the third operating parameter comprises an instruction for the hot melt liquid dispensing system to enter an operating mode including at least one of an on mode, an off mode, a setback mode, or a ready mode.
20. The method of claim 1, wherein the historical block of time comprises a week.
21. The method of claim 1, wherein the historical block of time is organized as a matrix, each element of the matrix representing a historic time interval of the historic block of time.
22. The method of claim 21, wherein each element of the matrix indicates a historic applicator parameter value of the plurality of historic applicator parameter values and an associated historic heater parameter value of the plurality of historic heater parameter values.
23. The method of claim 1, wherein a historic time interval of the historic block of time has a time duration in an inclusive range of one minute to ten minutes.
25. The method of claim 1, wherein the current heater parameter value being associated with the current time interval comprises the current heater parameter value corresponding to a time interval temporally offset from a time interval corresponding to the current applicator parameter value.
26. The method of claim 1, wherein the current heater parameter value and the current applicator parameter value both correspond to a same time interval.
28. The method of claim 27, wherein the first operating parameter of the applicator comprises a gun cycle count of the applicator during a temporally associated time interval.
29. The method of claim 28, wherein determining the first subset of applicator parameter values comprises determining that each applicator parameter value of the first subset of applicator parameter values indicates a gun cycle count of zero during a temporally associated time interval.
30. The method of claim 29, wherein determining the second subset of applicator parameter values comprises determining that each applicator parameter value of the second subset of applicator parameter values indicates a gun cycle count during a temporally associated time interval that exceeds a threshold gun cycle count.
31. The method of claim 28, wherein the predicted time of failure of the applicator is further based on the gun cycle count of each applicator parameter value of the first subset of applicator parameter values.
33. The method of claim 32, wherein the second operating parameter of the hot melt liquid heater comprises a duty cycle of the hot melt liquid heater during a temporally associated time interval.
34. The method of claim 33, wherein determining the predicted time of failure of the applicator comprises comparing one or more heater parameter values of the first subset of heater parameter values to one or more heater parameter values of the second subset of heater parameter values.
35. The method of claim 34, wherein comparing one or more heater parameter values of the first subset of heater parameter values to one or more heater parameter values of the second subset of heater parameter values comprises comparing an average of the first subset of heater parameter values to an average of the second subset of heater parameter values.
36. The method of claim 33, wherein the predicted time of failure of the applicator is further based on an average duty cycle value of the first subset of heater parameter values, an average duty cycle value of the second subset of heater parameter values, and an average gun cycle count of the second subset of applicator parameter values.
38. The method of claim 37, wherein the first block of time comprises a first day and the second block of time comprises a second day subsequent to the first day.
39. The method of claim 37, wherein a time interval of the first block of time has a time duration in an inclusive range of one minute to ten minutes.
40. The method of claim 37, wherein the predicted time of failure of the applicator is further based on an average duty cycle value of the third subset of heater parameter values, an average duty cycle value of the fourth subset of heater parameter values, and an average gun cycle count of the fourth subset of applicator parameter values.
44. The method of claim 43, wherein determining the predicted time of failure of the applicator comprises comparing the first parameter relationship, the second parameter relationship, and one or more other parameter relationships each temporally associated with a block of time other than the first block of time and the second block of time.
45. The method of claim 44, wherein determining the predicted time of failure of the applicator comprises determining a statistical trend between the first parameter relationship, the second parameter relationship, and the one or more other parameter relationships.
46. The method of claim 45, wherein determining the statistical trend comprising determining a mathematical function to fit the statistical trend.
47. The method of claim 32, wherein a time interval of the first block of time comprises a time interval during which at least one of the applicator, the hot melt liquid heater, or the hot melt liquid dispensing system is in a ready status.
48. The method of claim 32, wherein a heater parameter value of the plurality of heater parameter values is temporally associated with a same time interval as the time interval temporally associated with the applicator parameter value associated with the heater parameter value.
49. The method of claim 32, wherein a heater parameter value of the plurality of heater parameter values is temporally associated with a time interval offset from the time interval temporally associated with the applicator parameter value associated with the heater parameter value.
50. The method of claim 32, wherein the predicted time of failure of the applicator relates to air leakage associated with the applicator.
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